Mueller, Elisabeth; Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...